Augustine of Hippo, On Rebuke and Grace. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 5 (Schaff, 1887), public domain.
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- On Rebuke and Grace Extract from Augustin’s Retractations — Extract from Augustin’s Retractations. Book II. Chap. 67, On the Following Treatise, “de correptione et gratia.” I Wrote again to the same persons another treatise, which I entitled On Rebuke and Grace, because I had…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 1 — Introductory. Chapter 1 [I.]—Introductory. I Have read your letter—Valentine, my dearly beloved brother, and you who are associated with him in the service of God—which your Love sent by brother Florus and those who…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 2 — The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will. Now the Lord Himself not only shows us what evil we should shun, and what good we should do, which is all that the letter of the law is able to effect; but He…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 3 — What the Grace of God Through Jesus Christ is. For the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord must be apprehended,—as that by which alone men are delivered from evil, and without which they do absolutely no good…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 4 — The Children of God are Led by the Spirit of God. Let those, therefore, not deceive themselves who ask, “Wherefore is it preached and prescribed to us that we should turn away from evil and do good, if it is not we…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 5 — Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected. “Then,” say they, “let those who are over us only prescribe to us what we ought to do, and pray for us that we may do it; but let them not rebuke and censure us if we should not do it.”…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 6 — Objections to the Use of Rebuke. Chapter 6 [IV.]—Objections to the Use of Rebuke. “How,” says he, “is it my fault that I have not what I have not received from Him, when unless it is given by Him, there is no other…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 7 — The Necessity and Advantage of Rebuke. To this we answer: Whoever you are that do not the commandments of God that are already known to you, and do not wish to be rebuked, you must be rebuked even for that very…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 8 — Further Replies to Those Who Object to Rebuke. But wherefore do they, who are unwilling be rebuked, say, “Only prescribe to me, and pray for me that I may do what you prescribe?” Why do they not rather, in accordance…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 9 — Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet Received the Grace of Obedience. Chapter 9 [VI]—Why They May Justly Be Rebuked Who Do Not Obey God, Although They Have Not Yet Received…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 10 — All Perseverance is God’s Gift. Is such an one as is unwilling to be rebuked still able to say, “What have I done,—I who have not received?” when it appears plainly that he has received, and by his own fault has lost…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 11 — They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into Mortal Sin and Have Died Therein, Must Righteously Be Condemned. Chapter 11 [VII.]—They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 12 — They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost. Chapter 12.—They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost. And,…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 13 — Election is of Grace, Not of Merit. Whosoever, then, are made to differ from that original condemnation by such bounty of divine grace, there is no doubt but that for such it is provided that they should hear the…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 14 — None of the Elect and Predestinated Can Perish. Of such says the apostle, “We know that to those that love God He worketh together all things for good, to them who are called according to His purpose; because those…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 15 — Perseverance is Given to the End. Rightly follows the word to the kingdom of the elect: “If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how has He not also…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 16 — Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition by Predestination. Chapter 16.—Whosoever Do Not Persevere are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Perdition by Predestination. Such as these…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 17 — Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable. Chapter 17 [VIII.]—Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable. Here, if I am asked why God should not have given…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 18 — Some Instances of God’s Amazing Judgments. It is, indeed, to be wondered at, and greatly to be wondered at, that to some of His own children—whom He has regenerated in Christ—to whom He has given faith, hope, and…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 19 — God’s Ways Past Finding Out. Nor let us wonder that we cannot trace His unsearchable ways. For, to say nothing of innumerable other things which are given by the Lord God to some men, and to others are not given,…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 20 — Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According to God’s Eternal Foreknowledge. Chapter 20 [IX.]—Some are Children of God According to Grace Temporally Received, Some According to…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 21 — Who May Be Understood as Given to Christ. Those, then, were of the multitude of the called, but they were not of the fewness of the elected. It is not, therefore, to His predestinated children that God has not given…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 22 — True Children of God are True Disciples of Christ. Finally, the Saviour Himself says, “If ye continue in my word, ye are indeed my disciples.” Is Judas, then, to be reckoned among them, since he did not continue in…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 23 — Those Who are Called According to the Purpose Alone are Predestinated. For this reason the apostle, when he had said, “We know that to those who love God He worketh all things together for good,”—knowing that some…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 24 — Even the Sins of the Elect are Turned by God to Their Advantage. To such as love Him, God co-worketh with all things for good; so absolutely all things, that even if any of them go astray, and break out of the way,…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 25 — Therefore Rebuke is to Be Used. Let no one therefore say that a man must not be rebuked when he deviates from the right way, but that his return and perseverance must only be asked for from the Lord for him. Let no…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 26 — Whether Adam Received the Gift of Perseverance. Here arises another question, not reasonably to be slighted, but to be approached and solved in the help of the Lord in whose hand are both we and our discourses. For I…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 27 — The Answer. Wherefore we most wholesomely confess what we most correctly believe, that the God and Lord of all things, who in His strength created all things good, and foreknew that evil things would arise out of…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 28 — The First Man Himself Also Might Have Stood by His Free Will. Thus also He made man with free will; and although ignorant of his future fall, yet therefore happy, because he thought it was in his own power both not…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 29 — Distinction Between the Grace Given Before and After the Fall. What then? Did not Adam have the grace of God? Yes, truly, he had it largely, but of a different kind. He was placed in the midst of benefits which he…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 30 — The Incarnation of the Word. Hence, although these do not now require a grace more joyous for the present, they nevertheless need a more powerful grace; and what grace is more powerful than the only-begotten Son of…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 31 — The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its Exercise Was Left in His Free Choice. Chapter 31.—The First Man Had Received the Grace Necessary for His Perseverance, But Its Exercise Was…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 32 — The Gifts of Grace Conferred on Adam in Creation. At that time, therefore, God had given to man a good will, because in that will He had made him, since He had made him upright. He had given help without which he…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 33 — What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to Die, and Forsake Good, and the Inability to Sin, to Die, and to Forsake Good?. Chapter 33 [XII.]—What is the Difference Between the Ability Not to Sin, to…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 34 — The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which a Thing Comes to Pass. Chapter 34.—The Aid Without Which a Thing Does Not Come to Pass, and the Aid with Which a Thing Comes to Pass.…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 35 — There is a Greater Freedom Now in the Saints Than There Was Before in Adam. Certainly a greater liberty is necessary in the face of so many and so great temptations, which had no existence in Paradise,—a liberty…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 36 — God Not Only Foreknows that Men Will Be Good, But Himself Makes Them So. It is He Himself, therefore, that makes those men good, to do good works. For He did not promise them to Abraham because He foreknew that of…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 37 — To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering. As, therefore, the first man did not receive this gift of God,—that is, perseverance in good, but it was left in his choice to persevere or…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 38 — What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints. Chapter 38.—What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints. And thus God willed that His saints should…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 39 — The Number of the Predestinated is Certain and Defined. I speak thus of those who are predestinated to the kingdom of God, whose number is so certain that one can neither be added to them nor taken from them; not of…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 40 — No One is Certain and Secure of His Own Predestination and Salvation. But, moreover, that such things as these are so spoken to saints who will persevere, as if it were reckoned uncertain whether they will persevere,…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 41 — Even in Judgment God’s Mercy Will Be Necessary to Us. For the Holy Scripture testifies that God’s mercy is then also necessary for them, when the Saint says to his soul concerning the Lord its God, “Who crowneth thee…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 42 — The Reprobate are to Be Punished for Merits of a Different Kind. But those who do not belong to this number of the predestinated, whom—whether that they have not yet any free choice of their will, or with a choice of…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 43 — Rebuke and Grace Do Not Set Aside One Another. Let men then suffer themselves to be rebuked when they sin, and not conclude against grace from the rebuke itself, nor from grace against rebuke; because both the…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 44 — In What Way God Wills All Men to Be Saved. And what is written, that “He wills all men to be saved,” while yet all men are not saved, may be understood in many ways, some of which I have mentioned in other writings…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 45 — Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than They Themselves Have. Chapter 45.—Scriptural Instances Wherein It is Proved that God Has Men’s Wills More in His Power Than…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 46 — Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No Punishment in the Church Greater Than Excommunication. Chapter 46 [XV.]—Rebuke Must Be Varied According to the Variety of Faults. There is No…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 47 — Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved. Chapter 47.—Another Interpretation of the Apostolic Passage, “Who Will Have All Men to Be Saved.” That, therefore, in our ignorance…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 48 — The Purpose of Rebuke. Although, therefore, even while the faith of some is subverted, the foundation of God standeth sure, since the Lord knoweth them that are His, still, we ought not on that account to be indolent…vatican.va
- On Rebuke and Grace Chapter 49 — Conclusion. Hence, as far as concerns us, who are not able to distinguish those who are predestinated from those who are not, we ought on this very account to will all men to be saved. Severe rebuke should be…vatican.va
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